The Desirable Daughters reflects preoccupation with three major themes: the status of women, the immigrant experience, and the response to a changing society. How do you see these in Tara, Pavarti, and Padma? Explain your answer and analysis in a clear and comprehensive paper.

In The Desirable Daughters, all three sisters show different aspects of the "status of women" theme. A strong contrast is drawn between Parvati, the sister who remains in India, and Tara and Padma, who emigrate to the United States.
Parvati’s life largely plays out the upper-class, privileged lifestyle of their parents for which they were educated.
Although Tara embraces the Indian tradition of arranged marriage to an Indian man, he lives in the United States, so her adherence to custom takes her away from home. Once in California, she is drawn into the countercultural Haight Asbury lifestyle as she tries to reject her upbringing. After she is injured, however, she tries to reconnect with her Indian culture by returning home and exploring both religion and politics, including her ancestors's involvement in independence.
Padma seems to move the farthest away from India, physically and temperamentally; she is the most Americanized. Although she marries an Indian man, her marriage takes a backseat to her career. She climbs the social ladder through her involvement with fashion and by becoming a recognizable television personality.